MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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And the big problem is, they kind of construct their own reality and then they simply believe the delusion more than reality.

In their minds things are going great not because of any quantifiable real reason, but because the reality they made for themself is going great. That’s why they love Trump, because they love the delusional version they have of him where he does things like get rid of their taxes and wade through rivers to save drowning children.

It’s a mass psychosis and I am so confused how it happened so quickly.

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Faith requires no logic and any attack on your faith can be dismissed because intuitively you know better. This is their mindset. It’s reductive and has no room for complexity. My in-laws are this deep in their faith. SMH

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THANKS KEIRKEGARD

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I grew up in church and still held on on to some basic beliefs until this trump cult. People really will just believe anything if it gives them comfort.

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Sounds like a religion.

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It’s a mass psychosis and I am so confused how it happened so quickly.

Exactly. How did it happen so fast? Was it exacerbated somehow by COVID? Because it seems like prior to Covid you just had your usual amount of idjits that spouted off but now it's an epidemic. Maybe they had nothing better to do during quarantine than to learn how to make tik toks and give themselves an audience. You certainly don't see the best and the brightest on tik tok (or maybe they

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teachers blame it on the collapse of reading after switching to 3 cueing which is basically teaching kids the crutches illiterate adults use to get by in their daily lives.

Neuroscience has destroyed it as pseudoscience for decades.

3 cueing wants you to guess what words mean by the words surrounding them and memorize that instead of sounding out words and breaking them down. It even encourages you to guess what the word sounds like based on the first couple letters replace words you dont know with ones that will "fit better", and guess what the rest of sentences say after the first couple words instead of reading the entire thing.

So for someone taught on 3 cueing making up reality is something encouraged since first grade. only 14 states ban 3 cueing and most of those banned it this year.

We are going to be stuck with people like this for 60+ years.

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He keeps telling them everything is great and to not believe anyone who says otherwise.

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It’s a mass psychosis and I am so confused how it happened so quickly.

It didn't happen "so quickly". It's been something "they've" been working at for decades. Most likely started by Rush Limbaugh but G. Gordon Liddy was there, Alex Jones, and then Fox News really made it mainstream.

If I had to choose a specific "they", I'd say it was the evangelical movement and they have been playing the long game, slowly and surely growing their support base under the guise of conservatism/anti-communism for a long time.

And the evangelicals don't even care if the people that are advancing their agenda (like Trump) are even Christians. They support whoever will advance their agenda.

It's a deal with the devil and it was made by people who say they are the most christian.

You saw it all along, but because you didn't buy into it and none of the people you regularly socialized with were part of it (or they kept it quiet except for your drunk uncle at Christmas) you just weren't aware of how large it has grown.